Like the other RWNJs who would re-criminalize abortion, miscegeny, and independent prostitution, the meme-fantasy of incarcerating HRC persists.
To the GOP, Hillary like her husband, must be guilty of some crime, or at least an unindicted co-conspirator because the media has no statute of limitations.
OTOH, the Trumpistas crave an electoral victory that can only ignore the continued pathological obsession with the stigma of Watergate. That 1970s Nixonian Ur-scandal continues a curse of reactionary behavior lingering from the age of Cold War anti-communist dominionist fervor.
Every GOP resistance to Democratic administrations since FDR features this kind of obsession ranging from minor scandals to racist and now sexist and even ageist chicanery. Millenials could even endorse HRC’s imprisonment even if it was contradictory to the social justice views they hold.
The RWNJ mania extends to the desire to blaze new trails in performance art by having Bill confront his extramarital accusers on the stage of the second debate. This event could still happen in the third debate as there’s no shortage of GOP dead-enders and aspirants for positions in the post-election Trump-Ailes media empire .
Trump: If I win, I am going to instruct my attorney general to get a special prosecutor to look into your situation. [...] There has never been anything like this with emails. [...] You know what, people have been—their lives have been destroyed for doing one-fifth of what you have done. You should be ashamed. [...]
Clinton: Everything he said is absolutely false. [...] It's just awfully good that someone with the temperament of Donald Trump is not in charge of the law in our country.
Trump: Because you would be in jail.
he Dreyfus affair was a show trial in France in 1894, where a Jewish captain, Alfred Dreyfus, was accused and convicted of spying for the German Empire and exiled.
- The Star Trek: Deep Space Nine episode "Tribunal" shows Miles O'Brien being accused of terrorism by the Cardassians and subjected to a trial, which - like all Cardassian cases - is a show trial.
- In the 2012 film The Dark Knight Rises, Dr. Jonathan Crane conducts a show trial during Bane and the League of Shadows' takeover of Gotham City.
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Tuesday, Oct 11, 2016 · 11:38:56 PM +00:00
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The honor goes to the first major moment of the debate. That’s where, after a lengthy exchange, a menacing and almost unhinged Trump threatened to put Clinton in prison should he win the White House in November. Even in a campaign in which Republican crowds chant “lock her up” and Trump surrogates play-act anti-Clinton tribunals, it was extraordinary and disturbing. The behavior of a despot, not of a president.